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Do grinding missions prepare you for PVP?
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Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-04-16 00:25:16 UTC
and if not, what does?

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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#2 - 2014-04-16 00:26:23 UTC  |  Edited by: masternerdguy
No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in your pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#3 - 2014-04-16 00:27:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Lol no.
Exploding until you stop exploding prepares you for PvP.
Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#4 - 2014-04-16 00:28:00 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in our pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.



But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#5 - 2014-04-16 00:28:12 UTC
No, missions do not prepare you for PvP except by giving you a relatively safe environment in which to learn how to use your targeting and weapons systems.

What prepares you for PvP is PvP. Join RvB, Faction Warfare or simply attend an Agony PvP class, and you will learn more about PvP in one day than a lifetime of mission-running.

In fact I posit that the more missions you run, the harder it will be for you to get into PvP. Mission-running teaches you a lot of very bad habits.

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Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-04-16 00:29:02 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Lol no.
Exploding until you stop exploding prepares you from PvP.



OK, I think I understand now. Blink

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#7 - 2014-04-16 00:29:10 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
masternerdguy wrote:
PVP prepares you for PVP.


But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"


No, it's like saying, "throwing you in the pool and helping you not drown is how we teach you to swim."

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#8 - 2014-04-16 00:29:30 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"

No, it's like saying “go into the water so you can learn how to swim”.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-04-16 00:29:33 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
masternerdguy wrote:
No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in our pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.


But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"
More like saying drowning isn't so bad when you're immortal.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#10 - 2014-04-16 00:29:37 UTC
Yeah... missions prepare you for PvP just like CoD prepares you for the military.





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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-04-16 00:30:49 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
masternerdguy wrote:
No, but it prepares you for a special guest appearance on EVENews24 or TheMittani when you get ganked in our pimped missioning ship.

PVP prepares you for PVP.



But isnt that like saying "dont go in the water until you learn how to swim?"


No, it's like saying "don't go into the 10 meter diving section when you can't handle the 1 meter shallows".

In other words learn using cheap frigates instead of expensive ships. Actually, if anything missions teach you that bigger ships worth more ISK are better which just isn't so.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#12 - 2014-04-16 00:30:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Tyberius Franklin wrote:
More like saying drowning isn't so bad when you're immortal.
I retract my explanation and support this one instead.

Just remember to wear the cheap swimming trunks because you will soil them the first couple of times.
Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#13 - 2014-04-16 00:31:32 UTC
LOL!!!

Great replies guys. Keep'em coming.

I see I have alot to learn about PvP.

Missions are starting to get old.

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Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#14 - 2014-04-16 00:40:22 UTC
You running endless missions prepares me for pvp.

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stoicfaux
#15 - 2014-04-16 00:40:58 UTC
Grinding leads to botting, botting leads to RMT, RMT leads to PvP versus CCP.

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Marsha Mallow
#16 - 2014-04-16 00:43:37 UTC
Aye, learning mechanics via PVE will serve fine, just watch some big fleet pvp vids to get a sense of the rest

Forums are good if you want to read and follow orders

Bad if you have an opinion and your alliance ballgags you

Really, the best prep for PVP is lowsec or empire during wardecs - both sides of that coin. Enjoy the pain :P My current corp decced mine 5 years ago and I've been mates with em ever since (altho tbf i think that's just me, rest of corp not so much)

The most annoying mechanics exist in empire/low, but tbh the best smack ingame, because you have to force a fight. Some of which is genuinely funny, whereas nullsec is more about puffing up and strutting, posting crappy asciiss and pron - then someone else hotdropping 3 carriers with 190 man fleet you might get to be part of Roll

v0v small gang is harder, but more rewarding - do blobsec for too long and you'll just mentally switch off. Try a bit of both mebe? Smallgang/solo and large scale?

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Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#17 - 2014-04-16 00:51:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Shederov Blood
Depends on which definition of "prepare" you look at.

1. to put in proper condition or readiness -- nope.

2. to get (a meal) ready for eating, as by proper assembling, cooking, etc. -- sounds about right.

Yes. Grinding missions prepares you for PVP in the same way a turkey is prepared for Thanksgiving.

Who put the goat in there?
Winchester Steele
#18 - 2014-04-16 00:56:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Winchester Steele
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
LOL!!!

Great replies guys. Keep'em coming.

I see I have alot to learn about PvP.

Missions are starting to get old.



Join RvB or BNI. Just do it. Don't wait until you are "ready." You won't ever be ready. Take this from someone who wasted almost a year doing PvE and nearly cancelled my sub until some kind gankers rescued me.

...

Gully Alex Foyle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-04-16 00:59:16 UTC
Even lowsec ninja-mining in a Venture will prepare you for PVP more than running L4s in a Navy Raven.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#20 - 2014-04-16 01:04:10 UTC
Spending all of your teenage years anticipating getting laid and then having it last 10 seconds when it happens is what prepares you for PVP.

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